Footage released of baseball player Danry Vasquez assaulting girlfriend

A shocking video has emerged of baseball player Danry Vasquez assaulting his former girlfriend in a fire stairwell in August 2016, which led to him being sacked from his team.

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The graphic footage from two years ago shows Vasquez hitting a woman to the ground, knocking off her glasses and on one occasion coward punching her from behind.

The incident took place in a fire stairwell at the Whataburger Field in Texas, the home of the Corpus Christi Hooks which is the Double-A minor league affiliate of the Houston Astros.

Vasquez, 24, was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of assault family violence on August 4 2016, a day after the filmed incident. He was given administrative leave by Major League Baseball and eventually the Astros released him on August 17, 2016.

He was signed by independent league team the Lancaster Barnstormers in January this year but a few hours after the most recent footage was released to media, he was dumped from the side.

"Neither I, nor the Barnstormers' organisation as a whole, can condone or associate with that behaviour."

As the world showed outrage at the domestic assault vision, the Nueces County District Attorney office in Texas confirmed that at the time the Venezuelan was released from jail on bond and a plea deal.

The case was officially dismissed last week after he completed the terms of the plea deal to pay a fine and attend classed in a program for first-time offenders.

"He had done everything we asked him to do so I was forced to dismiss the case," Nueces Country District Attorney Mark Gonzalez told KRIS-TV.

"It was an assault that occurred, we had all the evidence to prove it we just allowed this individual to hopefully get the training and education so he wouldn't continue to assault people where he has relationships with."

The woman reportedly did not want the footage released to the public.

"She did not want to cooperate with the prosecutors," Vasquez's lawyer Les Cassidy told KRIS-TV.

"She wanted the case dismissed.

"He's learned to control his temper. He's learned to not get involved or resort to violence or force if he's upset with something.

"At the time, he was only 21 or 22 years old. So, he was a very young man."

Six years prior to the violent incident, Vasquez was picked up by the Detroit Tigers and received a $US1.2 million signing bonus.